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Wily Fox: How King Boris Saved the Jews of Bulgaria from the Clutches of his Axis Ally Adolf Hitler

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Traditionally, reputable works of history consist of a sequence of events presented in written detail. Some works are satisifed to concentrate on just the facts of the situation and are careful to harbor no discernible point of view. Other works use the sequence of events and accompanying research to draw a conclustion or present a point of view. Quality of the work hinges not only on the thoroughness and depth of research to support the work, but the historian's writing ability. A reader of Wily Fox is given the more stimulating of the two approaches. It is a thoroughly researched, skillfully written history with a point of view. In addition, Wily Fox deviates from the usual presentation of characters in a history as mere references fitting neatly into the sequence of events. Wily Fox characters, through imaginative dialogue, scheme, hate, love, sweat, bleed and repulse with halitosis. Such a technique grabs the reader and converts the sequence of events into a human experience. Granted, the dialogue had to be accepted as literary license but such a dialogue had to be handled carefully. Dialogue that did not honestly fit the characters and factual events would immediately unreavel the facts and point of view.